Example sentences of "[pers pn] has [be] [verb] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Jill Jones seems to fall into that category ( she has been teaching for seven years ) . |
| 2 | The House of Lords has asked whether it is sex discrimination , contrary to Directive 76/207/EEC , to dismiss a female employee when she has been engaged for the specific purpose of replacing ( after training ) another female employee who is about to go on maternity leave and when the maternity leave replacement discovers very shortly after appointment that she too is pregnant and will need maternity leave and the employer dismisses her because he needs the job holder to be at work during that period . |
| 3 | She has been childminding for eight years now and has gained an extremely good reputation . |
| 4 | While fashion magazines announce that longer skirts are in style , the princess has again appeared in the multi-coloured striped skirt she has been wearing for more than a year . |
| 5 | But at least she has been prepared for her party to stand in elections here . |
| 6 | A READER writes that she has been trying for weeks to find the outcome of the Prime Minister 's ‘ Taking Stock ’ exercise . |
| 7 | She has been nominated for her bounty packs campaign — the samples of baby food , drinks , nappies and creams given free to new mothers . |
| 8 | Although she always wanted to be a writer , the theatre has claimed a lot of her energy ( she has been nominated for an Emmy and a Tony award ) . |
| 9 | Ruth 's Medau training comes to the fore when she plans her class , and she has been commended for her ‘ whole-body ’ movement . |
| 10 | The kennel maid remarked , ‘ There 's something queer about that animal , she has been waiting for you since early this morning . |
| 11 | She has been walking for an hour a day for more than a year , but very slowly . |
| 12 | Ex-St Martin 's ( where she was often the only student in the life room ) , she has been painting for five years , mostly commissions which come from friends . |
| 13 | Moya , a seemingly relaxed woman in her forties , described her attacks , which she has been having for 20 years , as ‘ an enormous blackness and fear , like being held under water ’ . |
| 14 | She has been sidestepped for the chief slot on News At Ten , been desperately ill and has now been chopped from her Focus On Britain spot . |
| 15 | In the 19 years she has been working for Durham County Council 's social services the number of rehabilitation officers for the visually impaired has dropped to one . |
| 16 | ‘ She has been missing for several days now and we are concerned for her safety , ’ said a Garston police spokesman . |
| 17 | Hopefully , by the time read this , Silver Salmon will be well on the way towards completion of the major engine overhaul she has been longing for ever since our return from Denmark . |
| 18 | It is clear that he has been speaking for some time . |
| 19 | He has been trying for three years and he said today : ‘ Maybe it is because , God knows , I 've had some leg problems and I just can not climb those steps that easily , ’ he joked . |
| 20 | The thing is , he has been using for such a long time . |
| 21 | Although he has been looking for the little creep to beat him up for having steered him wrong , he realises that it is better to be with someone , even someone like Ratso , than to be alone . |
| 22 | He has been looking for pollen , the other standby of people who study ancient plants . |
| 23 | Since then he has been cared for at the Airedale General Hospital . |
| 24 | He has been writing for some time , starting with horror , and has more recently turned to the psychological thriller . |
| 25 | A decent man doing a difficult job with players who are light years away from being the world 's best , he has been treated for the last week like a cross between a child molester and a Nazi war criminal . |
| 26 | The basic view is best expressed by Skinner himself : ‘ A person disposed to act because he has been reinforced for acting may feel the conditions of his body at such a time and call it ‘ felt purpose' ’ , but what behaviourism rejects is the causal efficacy of that feeling . ’ |
| 27 | ‘ Well , he has been caddying for Harley in Europe , and he did win one tournament and finished equal second in the other . |
| 28 | It was his first medal in the competition , which he has been entering for five years — his previous best placing was ninth in 1990 . |
| 29 | ‘ He has been calling for a … ’ he glanced importantly at his notebook ‘ … |
| 30 | He feels he has been punished for looking after his customers . |